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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have just five months until their big day (Picture: Getty/PA)

In case you’ve been living under a rock since Monday 27 November, there’s a royal wedding happening in five months’ time.

Prince Harry will marry former actress Meghan Markle – the American 36-year-old who has transformed some embedded royal traditions after just over one year of dating Harry.

Whether you have been hiding under that rock, in desperate denial that Harry isn’t actually now off the market, or if you just can’t get enough of our Royals and want to recap on what we know about the wedding so far, prepare for a Royal rundown…

But the security costs for the high-profile event are falling to the taxpayer.

The Queen will be there, as will the rest of the royal family, along with Ms Markle’s parents Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte look set take on the roles of pageboy and bridesmaid.

If you need a reminder of what the ring looks like, check it out here:

The two outside stones came from the late princess’s personal collection (Picture: EPA)

Romantic Prince Harry designed the ring himself, using diamonds which belonged to his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

The two outside stones came from the late princess’ personal collection and are a poignant tribute to Diana in the year of the 20th anniversary of her death.

At the centre of the ring is a large diamond from Botswana, a country that holds special significance for Harry, who has visited many times since he was a child.

It is also a place where the couple has spent time together over the last year and a half, Kensington Palace said.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged to be married in May 2018 (Picture: REX/ Getty)

The jeweller behind the most photographed bling since Prince William got down on bent knee to Kate Middleton in 2010 has vowed never to make a ring like it again.

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Jeweler Cleave And Company created Meghan’s stunning three-stone engagement ring with and creative eye of Prince Harry.

‘We’re not going to be making replicas of it,’ Stephen Connelly, the Cleave And Company director, told the Associated Press. ‘If you want a ring, then we’ll design you a different one.’

Wave goodbye to those dreams of wearing a copy of this dazzler (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)

As well as letting Meghan revel in her unique design that nobody else will have, Connelly also admitted that the reaction to her band had been ‘a bit of a shock’ – so they might not be able to handle the hysteria that would come if they actually did start churning out replicas.

A beaming Ms Markle showed off the sparkling jewels at an open-air photocall in the Palace’s Sunken Garden.

The band is made of gold and the ring was made by Cleave and Company, Court Jewellers and Medallists to Her Majesty The Queen.

Harry is not the only royal to design his bride-to-be’s engagement ring using jewels that belonged to his mother.

The Duke of Edinburgh designed an engagement ring for the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, in 1947.

At the centre of the ring is a large diamond from Botswana (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Duke had the ring made by the jewellers Philip Antrobus Ltd, using diamonds from a tiara belonging to his mother, Princess Alice of Greece.

When Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge, he gave her Diana’s famous sapphire and diamond engagement ring.